FREE ESSAY ON ABORTION DEBATE - PRO-LIFE STANCE

ABORTION DEBATE - PRO-LIFE STANCE

In Roman times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was permissible. As our
civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were no longer acceptable by rational
human beings, so that in 1948, Canada along with most other nations in the world signed a
declaration of the United Nations promising every human being the right to life. The
World Medical Association meeting in Geneva at the same time, stated that the utmost
respect for human life was to be from the moment of conception. This declaration was
re-affirmed when the World Medical Association met in Oslo in 1970. Should we go
backwards in our concern for the life of an individual human being?
The unborn human is still a human life and not all the wishful thinking of those
advocating repeal of abortion laws can alter this. Those of us who would seek to protect
the human who is still too small to cry aloud for it's own protection, have been accused
of having a 19th Century approach to life in the last third of the 20th Century. 
But who in reality is using arguments of a bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact
of biological science - Make no Mistake that from the moment of conception, a new human
life has been created. 
Only those who allow their emotional passion to override their knowledge can deny it:
only those who are irrational or ignorant of science doubt that when a human sperm
fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new human being who carries genes
in its cells that make that human being uniquely different from any and other human being
and yet, undeniably a member, as we all are, of the great human family. The entire fetus
needs to grow into a baby, a child, and an old man, are time, nutrition and a suitable
environment. It is determined at that very moment of conception whether the baby will be
a boy or a girl; which of his parents he will look like; what blood type he will have.
His whole heritage is forever fixed. Look at a human being eight weeks after conception
and you, yes every person here who can tell the difference between a man and a women,
will be able to look at the fetus and tell me whether it is a baby boy or a girl.
Who will pay for there abortions? With Medicare, of course, it is you and I. I know one
full pregnancy costs most than an abortion, but not much more. And it does not cost more
than three abortions that is what happens when the climate or choice for life or death of
the unborn child changes. Let us use this money for constructive purposes, not
destructive. It has been suggested that abortions on request would enable the poor to
secure abortion as easily as the rich but regrettably, it has been shown that
abortion-minded physicians in great demand will respond to the age-old commercial rules,
as has already happened in the States and in Britain.
Abortion on demand a women's right to choose not to continue an unplanned pregnancy would
prevent there being unwanted children in this country, so we are told. This is the final
and desperate emotional plea of people anxious, at whatever price, to escape the
responsibility for their actions. Nobody here or in Canada, wants there to be unwanted
children in this city, and in this country, and also in this world. There is nothing more
pitiable or heat rending that an unwanted fetus becoming an unwanted baby or an unwanted
baby becoming an unwanted child, or an unwanted child becoming an embittered adult. But
few would think it right to kill or have killed an unwanted baby to prevent it from
becoming an unwanted child. Then how can they think it right to kill an unwanted fetus,
even more defenseless than a newborn baby just because it may grow into an unwanted
child.
Once a women has conceived, she already is a parent, be it willing or otherwise. The only
way she ceases it be a parent is by a natural death or an act of killing. Killing in any
form is not the solution to so-called unwanted human beings at any age. Hitler thought
this was right. Canadians surely do not. It is a permissive and frightened society that
does not develop the expertise to control population, civil disorder, crime, poverty,
even its own sexuality but yet would mount an uncontrolled, repeat uncontrolled,
destructive attack on the defenseless, very beginnings of life. Let us marshal all our
resources financial, educational, those of social agencies, but above all, of human
concern and passion for our fellow humans. Let us by all means, make available to all,
knowledge of conception and methods of contraception. Let us offer ourselves as loving
humans to those already in this country who are unwanted by their natural parents. And
incidentally, I am sure I do not need acquaint you with some of the facts about so-called
unwanted children. The Children's Aid Societies in Toronto and in fact in every major
city across our country have many more potential parents anxious and willing to adopt
infants and young children than they have such children available for adoption. Let us
marshal our technology and humanity in the service of the unfortunate.